Here are 7 basic ways in which you can profit from your traffic today:

1. First, you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually, an e-book or software works the best – they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.

2. Opt-In list

It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the venture.

With an opt-in list, there are tons of ways you can profit further into the future. You can build repeat customers and turn your list members into partners for your products. For an example of a good opt-in page.

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually, it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own traffic, publicity, and branding without needing to spend a cent.

4. ‘Pay-per-click

In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click-through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network, and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, they will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.

5. Offer an advertising space

Targeted niche websites with high traffic can ‘rent’ a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example, you can charge $300 per month in advertising fees if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day. I use this strategy at my Online Marketing Secrets blog.

Other than that, you can also generate advertising revenue using exit pop-ups. By doing this, you won’t clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor’s experience.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don’t need to go through any fulfillment issues after your sales.

One of the best affiliate marketing training resources can be found where I provide continual education on affiliate marketing to members.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from click-through, you are paid if your visitors subscribe to other people’s mailing lists.

Alternatively, there are a lot of big companies like Coca-Cola who need surveys to be done, and by referring your visitors to complete surveys, you can also earn good profits from your website.